Corset stiffener.



H0. 709,565. Patented Sept. 23,' |902.

H TDBLEY CORSET STIFFENER.

(Application led May 25, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ,PATENT FFICE HEINRICH TORLEY. OF OBER-KAUFUNGEN, NEAR CASSEL, GERMANY,

ASSIGNOR TO BERTHA SCHECK, OF OBER-KAUFUNGEN, NEAR CAS- SEL, GERMANY.

CORSET-STIFFENER.

ESPECIL'ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,565, dated September 23, 1902.

Application iiled May 25. 1901. Serial No. 61,891. (No model.) i

To (tI/Z whom, it ntfty concern/.-

Be it known that I, HEINRICH Tonner, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at OberKaufungen, near Cassel, in the Province of IIesse-Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Springs for Corset-Stilfeners and other Purposes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in Al he art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to spirally-wound and flattened springs for corset-stitfeners and other uses; and it consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a side elevation ot' my spirallycoiled spring before flattening. Fig. 2 rep resents the same after flattening. Fig. 3 represents the same after bending. Fig. a

represents the same in the position shown in Fig. 2, but with two parallel wires for hind ing coils. Fig. corresponds to Fig. l, with two bindingwires arranged to cross each other. Fig. 6 corresponds to Fig. 2, but with two binding-wires, as in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 represents a spring similar to that shown in Fig. 6, but with a slightly-different appearance, owing to the wires having been Woundon a semicylindrical mandrel instead of a cylindrical one. Fig. S represents another modiiication of form, owing to winding the wires on a Wedge-shaped mandrel; and Fig. 9 represents another modification, the wires of which have been wound on a seinieylindrical mandrel, such as that used in making the spring shown in Fig. 7, the coils being, however, closer and the spring more compact.

My improved spring consists of a wire coil d of three parallel wires bound together by a binding-Wire c, passing in a zigzag line through each of their loops b on the side m of the spring, as shown in Fig. l. This side m, has an undulating border, as shown in Fig. l, the other side 'n of the said spring being smooth and even. The spring is then pressed fiat, giving it the form shown in Fig. 2. The flattening of the wire c on itself forms the `small loops h', interlocking with loop h. The spring may then be bent, if desired, into the form shown in Fig. 3, but will be more often nsed as a corset-stiliener in the straight `form illustrated by Figs. 2 and 4, bending `into the form shown in Fig. 3 only bythe strain of the garment or the exure of the wearers body.

In Fig. 4 two parallel binding-Wires @fare wound through the loops h instead of the single wire c aforesaid.

In Fig. 5 two binding-wires g h are wound through the loops b, alternatingly crossing each other between them. Fig. 6 illustrates this same construction of Fig. 5 after fiattening the spring, which forms the binding-Wires into loops Where they interlock wit-h the coils d.

Figs. 7 and 9 illustrate forms of the spring corresponding to Figs. 2 and 4c, but Vformed on a semicylindrical mandrel.

Fig. 8 represents a form corresponding to Figs. 2, 4, and 7, but formed on a Wedgeshaped mandrel.

I claiml. A spring for corset-stiffeners and other purposes consisting of a series of parallel spiral spring-wires t wound to leave one edge Yof the spring undulating and open While the other is straight or closed, and a binding wire or wires passed through the loops of said coils on the open or undulating side, the 'whole beingr flattened substantially as set forth.

2. A flat corset-stitfener consisting of aseries of parallel spiral spring-Wires presenting a closed straight edge and an open undulating edge and a binding-Wire forming loops which interlock with the loops of the Said coils at the open or undulating edge of the spring substantially as set forth.

3. A dat corset-stilfener consisting of a series ot' parallel spiral spring-wires presenting a closed straight edge and an open undulating edge and a pair of binding-wires formingr loops which interlock with the loops of the substantially as set forth. 1o Said coils substantially as set forth. In testimony whereof I have afixed my sig- 4. A fiat corset-stiener consisting of a se- I nature in presence of two Witnesses. ries of parallel spiral spring-Wires presenting HEINRICH TORLE Y. a closed straight edge and an open undulating' edge and a, pair of binding-wires crossing each other and forming loops which interlock alternately with the loops of the said'ooils Witnesses:

OTTO KONIG, J. A. RITTERSHAUS. 

